Blog moved!
11-Apr-2010After checking the PHP options and benchmarking hosting & database speeds at spry.com’s dirt cheap hosting against options at the dirt cheap hosting I have at GoDaddy.com I decided to move Brainsnorkel to the garish world of GoDaddy.
While moving I found a couple of things of interest.
- That the Freshy2 theme I use has been bequeathed to the open source community by its creator, so I will move to a newer theme when I find one and modify it to taste. (Ignore the WordPress 2.9 incompatibilities for now, ok?)
- That exporting MySQL defaults to latin character encoding, and phpMyAdmin defaults to utf8 for import.
- That TPG has one of the slowest to update DNS servers in the world:
sh-3.2$ nslookup brainsnorkel.com 203.12.160.35
Non-authoritative answer:
Server: dns1.tpgi.com.au
Address: 203.12.160.35
Name: brainsnorkel.com
Address: 64.79.220.169
sh-3.2$ nslookup brainsnorkel.com 203.12.160.36
Non-authoritative answer:
Server: dns2.tpgi.com.au
Address: 203.12.160.36
Name: brainsnorkel.com
Address: 97.74.215.189
And I guess I should check that comments are working…
Congrats on the move. Sorry it’s to GoDaddy (been watching Superbowl ads?), but if they work, then who’s complaining?
Tis a pity that another developer has abandoned their software on a source repo and thinks that means they’re doing open source. Who’d have thought a well maintained theme would be hard to find…
Have you considered Carrington? Admittedly, it looks to be a meta-theme – you’ll still have to find a theme to use in Carrington… But at least I know the company that’s behind it is still very much alive and kicking.
Yes, apologies for propping up GoDaddy. Brash & garish and just a little sexist. Ads didn’t influence me, but dirt cheap, ssh, good allowances and an opportunity for consolidation did.
Carrington sounds good. I wonder if the sub-themes are as transient.
I’ve actually changed the mobile theme to a slim Carrington theme. Freshy seems to be updated regularly enough to keep it current for now.